I made a minimal website using Hugo just for writing blogs so I don’t have to post them in groups as posts. Hope it’s fine here. This is not a promotion. No tracking links either.
Hello, not sure you are aware, but you can write blogs articles on Plume to be on ActivityPub directly.
I heard about Writefreely, but Plum is new for me. Also, I checked out that website and saw this.
Project status
Currently, Plume developers have less time, and Plume is not actively maintained. New features may take time to be implemented. Could you consider similar-purpose software? WriteFreely, WordPress with the ActivityPub plugin, and so on?
Anyway, I will check it out and try to write on those platforms if possible.
Sad to hear development is staled. I used to write articles on Plume several years ago and it worked just fine (not sure about Lemmy federation though). WriteFreely was very similar, though it does not support comments IIRC.
The only problem is market place. If you want to seel of buy something locally. Everyone has switched to that.
Craigslist still exists.
I’m my area it’s the only way to shop used
We have something called marktplaats.
Maybe you should create your own competitor in your country.
We had a competitor in Canada, way before Marketplace: Kijiji.
It is not nearly dead yet, but if you want to avoid Meta at all cost, be ready to miss a good 80–90% of buyers and sellers (estimate provided by the Royal Institute of Guessworking).
That means there are things you’ll never find even if they are sold. And things you’ll never sell even if there are people looking for them.
The main difference between them is marketplace is embedded in FB app. You can search FB and find offers. That’s it. That’s how it won.
For most people, FB is just convenient: all in one app. Why install another? With another registration. Another site to browse. etc.
Building a competitor… easier said than done!
My area already has two competitors, but they are dead in comparison. It would be amazing if they took off, but currently Marketplace is sort of the only real option.
If you are not setting an example. Nobody will. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.
Exactly! People keep saying “but everyone uses it”.
That is such a lame excuse. Yes you will lose convenience. In my country not having whatsapp is basically not having a phone number, but I am doing it anyway because I refuse to participate. Change isn’t going to happen while people wait for it, you have to stand up for what you believe in.
Same here as well wrt WhatsApp. I also refused to use it.
I stopped using all Facebook products back in like 2015.
A lot of what is in this article is already common knowledge. And there’s definitely a “sky is falling” spin to it.
Meta is shit and Zuck can kiss my ass, but the article is a bit sensational.
is it just an American thing or does nobody else know anyone thst uses WhatsApp
It’s probably similar in Poland. Never had a friend who used WhatsApp.
Actually, it’s the opposite. In many countries other than America, WhatsApp is the default messenger for everything, including government services. And all these privacy flaws also affect them too.
I think you misunderstood the parent comment. Admittedly, it was poorly worded.
just an american thing, its widely used here in new zealand
I really want to. But around here it’s the de facto Craigslist, really really good for farm supplies and all sorts of used things. And well people use it for the events side, and there’s lots of specific interest groups that are very active and informative. Which is why it’s so hard for me to leave despite the fact I’d enjoy it if Zuck chucks himself into a volcano. I suppose I can just keep making sure I dont click a single ad, though I’m sure they’re making money off me somehow. A frustrating situation.
Only have messenger left. Considering doing another push to convince my stubborn friends to go on signal. Then I can finally be rid of meta
I haven’t been on in years. At first everyone said I was left out, IDC, text me better than fb/meta. I’ve been sm free since ~2016. It works just fine.
Marketplace is so active, it’s the one thing I’m tempted to use it for. But I wont install their apps on my phone
It’s active, but poorly policed and filled with scams. I’ve almost given up on it.
No shit. Why people even started in the first place is crazy to me.
But if you are using them, please stop.
I’ve been harping on this since Myspace and no one wanted to listen.
Someone yesterday just tried to get me on Instagram. No thanks.
Here in Spain it was because WhatsApp took over cuz carriers charged for SMS and phone calls. Now there’s a massive captive audience that self-reinforces. Same with Instagram if you’re young or Facebook if you like having your brain melted
Because instant messaging died out. Then it seemed like you were nothing if you weren’t sharing the bitchiness of your life. Then tumblr died out. Now we’re at the enshittification of it, with algorithms curating everything with an advertisement every three scrolls and an Ai post every two it’s basically every one wheel scroll is your family and friends then three scrolls down you’re seeing your memes.
It’s shit.
None of those things would have made me interested in starting to use non anonymous services. We learned not to do that years prior to its arrival. Took one look and went hell no.
Now we’re at the enshittification of it,
Maybe, but it was always bad. Always. It was a bad idea from the beginning. No person who thought about it for 5 minutes should have thought it was ever a good idea.
Thats why when Zucks quote called the users dumbfucks for just handing over their data to him, it was no surprise. Thats what the facebook user was from the beginning: a dumbfuck.
what would it realistically take to move an entire country off of whatsapp?
what would it realistically take to move an entire country off of whatsapp?
Wisdom.
The first people have to abandon the idea that they’re only allowed to use one product of a category at a time. It will not kill you to use to chat apps, it will not kill you to use two microblogging services. The second is that you need to prioritize the better one when you can. This eliminates lock-in effects which are a major moat
Yeah I have texting, signal and discord on my phone for different people, it’s pretty seamless to use all 3.
Same as what it took to have it take the whole market: a better alternative and enough advertisement for a critical mass of people to migrate at once, so that they stay active there.
Then the rest will flock more or less progressively.
it’s going to have to burn people. they’re that dumb.
Since ever filtered in the Portmaster
Me too. via NextDNS.
This is the way
19 years ago.
Argh. but all other VR headsets are much more expensive.
Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.
The red pill is the answer.
I’m hoping this guy just hasn’t consumed any popular media in the past fifteen years because that term has been associated with some pretty specific communities…
I’m out of the loop.
A bunch of weird woman-hating incels co-opted the “redpill” language. I first saw it on /r/redpilll but I’m not sure that’s the origin. It honestly probably emerged from gamergate. Essentially, they rejected the notion that being a “nice guy” gets you anywhere in life. They promoted shit like “negging” instead, which was the idea that women will find you more interesting if you insult them. There was more heinous stuff than that, but you get the idea.
I get banned a lot because of accidentally using words that have become problematic when I wasn’t looking. How about we just stop letting extremists claim all the perfectly good words and symbols instead?
Yeah, I mean, that would be ideal. Not sure what that looks like though,. It’s kind of their MO to co-opt pop culture references to prop up their “movements” that are largely unpopular. And platforms probably just blanket ban to protect vulnerable populations. You just gotta live and learn.
Redpill/blackpill/“___pilled” has become common gen z slang. Sure, the incels propagated it, but its teeth were removed like 5 years ago
Fuck, I’m old for all of this shit. It’s boatload of bullshit wrapped in a giant dumb-taco.
Which ones? Red = Trumpers or something?
Used to be there was a sub Reddit called theredpill which was basically all about being an asshole to women for personal gain. (Something like that I don’t remember the actual message)
Manosphere
Is that like a big person support group, or like one big dudes name. I’m just imagining the blob from xmen
Basically misogynistic content creators that give horrible advice to boys and young men, like Andrew Tate, they love the red pill metaphor to act as if they’re enlightened and somehow that’s why they have money and sex. In actuality most of these grifters make most or all of their money from people paying them for courses that don’t work, about money, dating, sex, etc.
Edit: Tate is even worse than the average manosphere creator, he’s a horrible person who did more horrible stuff than just grift, but he’s the first asshole who came to my mind when explaining manosphere creators. They’re all reactionary pos.
Do they realize their mythos is written by a trans woman!? Lol! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Yeah probably living under a rock. Nothing that’s new in the article and talking about whays already obvious. Might be even ai generated
